Quotes About Knowledge

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.